Fish n chips' UK credentials under fire

LONDON (Reuters) - The reputation of fish and chips as Britain's national dish has taken a battering after a historian said the classic meal originated elsewhere.

Ye gads! If not from the fair island nation then where, pray tell, where? Please don't say France.

Panikos Panayi, history professor at Leicester's De Montfort University, said his studies had shown deep-fried battered fish and potatoes were a mixture of French "pommes frites"...

I said NOT to say France! Bloody nubber!

...and fried fish dishes brought by Jewish immigrants.

Ah ha! I am so going to hold this over everybody who ever told me they didn't like kosher food.

"Over time it has become anglicised," he told Reuters. "It has almost become part of Britain."

It's certainly become part of the blood vessels of Britain.

Panayi, who is studying how immigration and globalisation have affected the British diet, said food brought in by immigrants often evolved once it reached the country's shores.

So there you have it. Brit culture is really just a combination of Frog and Hebrew. Might as well put down that pint and grab up a bottle of wine, mates.

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